Sphaeralcea gierischii
Gierisch's globemallow
ascending, usually dark red-purple, 4–10 dm, glabrous or stellate-canescent.
blades green, gray, or gray-green, ovate to cordate-ovate, 3- or 5-lobed, main lobe unlobed in 3-lobed leaves, cleft in 5-lobed leaves, lobes spatulate, 1.2–4 cm, not rugose, base truncate to cordate, margins entire, surfaces stellate-pubescent.
paniculate, open, 2–few-flowered per node, tip not leafy;
involucellar bractlets green.
sepals 5–13 mm;
petals red-orange, 15–20(–25) mm;
anthers purple or yellow.
2 per mericarp, black, pubescent.
hemispheric;
mericarps 10–15, 4.5–5.5 × 3 mm, chartaceous, nonreticulate dehiscent part 40–50% of height, tip acutish, indehiscent part wider than dehiscent part, sides prominently reticulate.
Sphaeralcea gierischii
Of conservation concern.
Sphaeralcea gierischii is found in Mohave County, Arizona, and Washington County, Utah. Material of S. gierischii is limited and eventually may be found to be conspecific with S. grossulariifolia.
(Discussion copyrighted by Flora of North America; reprinted with permission.)
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